SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA. Native of Penang, Straits Settlements, and the 
Pacific Islands. 
Pseudobulbs conical-ovoid and ringed, furnished with three or four lanceolate, 
acute, prominently veined leaves on stalk-like stems. Scape erect, about 2 feet 
high, bears eight to ten purple flowers with elliptic sepals and ovate petals. The 
lip is small and trifid, white spotted with purple and has an incurved column. 
Disk has a saddle-shaped bifid callus. Flowers in September. Treatment as for 
S. Paulinae. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS SOUTTERIANA. Native of North Queensland. 
A charming, native species with rounded pseudobulbs 1 to 1} inches high, topped 
with six or seven green, plicate leaves from 18 inches to 2 feet in length, and up 
to j-inch wide. The scape is slender and terminates in a short raceme which bears 
eight or nine flowers about an inch in diameter, the sepals and petals being slightly 
longer than the trilobed lip. Lateral lobes spathulate and incurved over the column. 
Middle lobe extended into a claw with densely woolly margins. The disk has 
two large, thick, erect, rather spreading, glabrous calli between the lateral lobes. 
Column incurved, presenting a hooded appearance. In colour the flower is light 
purple. Flowers in Summer. Treatment as for S. Paulinae. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS VIELLARDI. Native of Pacific Islands. 
The largest species, having ovoid pseudobulbs with handsome acuminate, plaited 
leaves 2 feet long by 2 to 3 inches wide. Scape, about 3 feet tall, bears a very 
large number of flowers, of which eight to ten flowers are open at a time, the 
otheres developing in succession. Each flower is about 2 inches in diameter. Sepals 
and petals, broadly ovate, are white and pale lilac. Lip trilobed, side lobes small, 
erect, orange-brown with two large orange-coloured protruberances on the disk, 
front lobe heart-shaped, deep lilac in colour and stalked. Flowers in late Summer 
or Autumn. Treatment as for S. aurea. 
STANHOPE A 
This genus of epiphytical, evergreen orchids has about a score of known species, 
all of which are interesting and beautiful, and include in their number some of the 
most remarkable blooms of the whole realm of flowers. They are easily grown, 
and the plants, even when not in bloom, are attractive with their broad, plaited, 
dark green leaves, which closely resemble those of the Aspidistras so popular with 
our grandmothers. They have certain slight disadvantages in so far as the flower 
scapes grow from the bases of the pseudobulbs and are invariably perpendicularly 
pendulous. The flowers are short-lived, rarely lasting more than a few days in 
beauty, and their perfume is overpoweringly sweet. 
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